While the subject of cloning has not been in the news lately, people should realize that there are some scientists who still want human clones, and politicians pushing for approval of human cloning for experiments. Back in October, UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee published a report suggesting a fresh look at the 2005 UN Declaration against all human cloning, as well as encouraging a change in cloning terminology to sanitize the production of cloned human embryos to make it more acceptable. The committee proposed “different options for legal regulation of human reproductive cloning (including the possibility of a moratorium)”, essentially opening the possibility of future born human clones.... This same disingenuous playing with definitions is also contained in two bills before the U.S. Congress. Rep. Diana DeGette has filed HR 4808, and Sen. Arlen Specter has filed S 3766, ostensibly to allow federal taxpayer funding of human embryonic stem cell research. But hidden in the definitions is a provision that would actually allow taxpayer funding of human embryo cloning...
Also see:
- Church Leaders Abdicating Man's Future To A Transhumanist Endgame?
- "Please, Help Us," Beg Tom & Nita Horn
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